We are committed to upholding human rights, including ensuring no-one in our direct operations or extended supply chain or customer base is subjected to modern slavery and human trafficking. Over this financial year we have continued to ensure that we have the right policies and processes in place, build internal capability to understand and manage future risks as the business evolves, and maintain sustainable commercial relationships with our business partners and suppliers. Our modern slavery approach over the next financial year will seek to further embed and develop our ethical values internally and externally.
Our Business
Our supply chain network is largely service driven to benefit our applicants and higher education providers. The services provided by our suppliers include managed IT services, overflow outsourced call centre activity, venue hire, agency labour and contractors, as well as support supply chains incorporating IT equipment, facilities management, cleaning, catering, security, office furniture etc.
We continue to be committed to ensuring that the risk of modern slavery and human trafficking occurring within our supply chains, or any part of our business, is kept to an absolute minimum. Our procurement policies and processes reflect our commitment to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business relationships, and to implementing and enforcing effective and proportionate safeguards and controls. We have our Procurement Policy, an internal policy used to support procurement activities. Also, potential suppliers (for the majority of contracts over a specified threshold) are required to complete a bidder questionnaire providing confirmation that they have a programme to assure that modern slavery does not exist in either their operations or those of their supply chains, and also that all relevant employees are trained to understand what slavery and human trafficking are and how to mitigate the risk of them. We are also continuing to conduct periodic audits of our core suppliers who offer their services overseas to satisfy ourselves that the way in which they deliver their services to us meet with our principles and values.
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